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Mushroom Consumption May Lower Risk Of Depression
Mushrooms have been making headlines due to their many health advantages. Not only do they lower one's risk of cancer and premature death, but new research led by Penn State College of Medicine also reveals that these superfoods may benefit a person's mental health.
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November - December 2021
Scientific India
Visiting Viruses
Are viruses good or bad? Should we really visit one? AWell, given the present times, the instant answer would be: viruses are bad and there is definitely no need to visit them. There is a reason why we are urgently following social distancing. The evidence? SARS-CoV-2, of course! We all know that this virus causes the novel coronavirus disease, wreaking havoc across the world since the end of 2019. It has turned our lives upside down because of its rapid infection spree. Not only COVID-19, but viruses also cause illnesses like Ebola, smallpox, influenza, SARS, MERS, and dengue. But, did you know that if it was not for some viruses, there would be no humans? They probably played a crucial role in human evolution. For the last few years, scientists around the world have been exploring these agents of change to unravel several mysteries associated with them.
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November - December 2021
Scientific India
PUSA spray: a breakthrough to reduce air pollution in Delhi NCR
Bengaluru-based firm “nurture.farm” is providing technology to aid farmers to spray decomposers over an unprecedented 5 lakh acres which proves to be a boon to the National Capital Region (NCR). The firm is offering a microbial bioenzyme “Boom spray” developed by Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI) to help farmers across India to dispose stubble (crop residue) on their farms responsibly. The company is giving free service to farmers where spraying the bioenzyme, named “Pusa Decomposer”, and gets converted into manure, thereby improving the quality of soil. A technologyled solutions provider for sustainable agriculture, has signed up with more than 25,000 farmers, mostly in Punjab and Haryana, covering an area of over 5,00,000 acres. Thanks to IARI and nurture.farm for this innovative solution to poor air quality index.
6 min |
November - December 2021
Scientific India
Plastic and microplastic in marine environment
Modern lifestyles and Malmost all product categories incorporated plastic. It is one of the most widely used materials on earth. In contrast to metals, plastic is lightweight, strong, malleable material that is cheap. As useful as these characteristics are when plastics are used in everyday life, they can also be very hazardous when they are discarded into the environment. Because plastics are nearly indestructible and contain toxic material, plastic can seriously damage the environment (UNEP, 2005).
3 min |
November - December 2021
Scientific India
Fish exposed to Microplastics pollution since 1950s
Plastics is an avoidable thing for modern Pcivilization, it is impossible to picture a future without it. Plastics are ubiquitous and it is included in food packaging, automobiles, clothes, fishing gear, and medical devices. Plastics are highly used because of its features such as lightness, strength, durability, and low cost, among other alternatives. Plastics benefits are overshadowed by their drawbacks, such as their strong resistance to deterioration and the real fact that they get accumulate in nature due to poor management of waste in many parts of the world. This can be particularly noticeable on beaches and in oceans, where currents and wind carry plastic trash.
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November - December 2021
Scientific India
Use of Insects as a protein source for broiler production under Indian conditions
Poultry meat contributes more than 50% Pof total meat market in India (DAHD, 2019).
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November - December 2021
Scientific India
The Importance of Evidence in Medicine
Experience is a person's biggest asset. Often in our Edaily life, our actions are dictated by the way our previous decisions panned out. With experience, we can estimate the consequences of our actions, making it easier to decide the manner in which we carry out a certain task. While two people can have similar experiences, identical experiences are hard to come across. There is always a variation in the way different people carry out their tasks, which is owed to the difference in their experiences. Therefore, while one person may be able to carry out a task perfectly, the other may make errors causing a delay in completion of the task. This is where 'science' or 'evidence' becomes crucial.
5 min |
November - December 2021
Scientific India
Egg: good source of choline supplement
The egg is one Cof the rich sources of choline. The importance of choline is tremendous in the body during the different physiological processes. Choline is necessary for the normal functioning of all cells in our body.
3 min |
November - December 2021
Scientific India
Era of large air purifiers
Pollution is nothing but some un-wanted or un-acceptable level of Pan item. Pollution in all its forms in air, water and land have reached to alarming levels and people are feeling its harmful health effects. Though, sound pollution, corruption, loss of humanity due to changing thoughts/mind sets, growing population, growing unemployment, increasing hunger/malnutrition, widening economical, academic & digital divide/gap of society, and many more are no way less than air, water and land pollution which are affecting the mankind severely. The present way of civilization/modernization based on technology is said to be the root cause of all these various types of pollution. Though, we all at individual level are responsible for each type of pollution but we always prefer to point fingers towards others and rest hope on others to find the solution for all the evils including pollution. Developing technology to tackle or control pollution is way behind than the need to “nip the evil in the bud”. Thus, there is great need to control, minimize or stop all such activities which leads to the generation of pollution but without scarifying our comforts based on technological development, we want to develop pollution control solutions either towards post mitigation of pollution or making pollution controlled technological assisted development.
6 min |
November - December 2021
Scientific India
Why Do Tortoises Live So Long?
The term longevity is sometimes meant to refer only to especially longlived members of a population, whereas life expectancy is always defined statistically as the average number of years remaining at a given age.
2 min |
September - October 2021
Scientific India
Self-Doctoring: Bringing To The Never Ending Trail Of Antibiotic Resistance
On a serious note, the few comparative studies done Oexclusively on the self-use of antibiotics among populations have shown concern on the critical rise of antibiotics resistance.
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September - October 2021
Scientific India
Will It Be Safe For Humans To Fly To Mars?
Sending human travelers to Mars would require scientists and engineers to overcome a range of technological and safety obstacles. One of them is the grave risk posed by particle radiation from the sun, distant stars, and galaxies.
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September - October 2021
Scientific India
Amazon forest Fires may have affected up to 85 percent of threatened species
In the last two decades, deforestation and forest fires have encroached on the ranges of thousands of plant and animal species in the Amazon rainforest, including up to 85 percent of threatened species in the region, researchers report in Nature. Since 2001, an area up to the size of Washington State has burned.
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September - October 2021
Scientific India
Effects of climate change on fish stocks
Climate change is the statistical change in the course of Crime over a period of decades from decades to millions of years. It can be a change in the average season or a change in the events around an average season.
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September - October 2021
Scientific India
Milk is more than a food for the neonate in animal production system Swine
Lactocrine term is used to describe the milk Lborne bioactive factors (MbFs) that transfer from mother to offspring/s via lactation. The MbFs play a significant role in providing immunity, survival, growth, and development of new-born.
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September - October 2021
Scientific India
Lizards without legs but don't call them snakes
Legless lizards are normal lizards that lost their legs. Legless lizards didn't just Lkick off their legs and slither away one day. Over millions of years, the animals developed smaller and smaller limbs until, eventually, their legs and arms disappeared. This kind of change, which is called evolution, often happens over long periods of time.
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September - October 2021
Scientific India
Nano Plastics from Disposable Face Masks – Need for Awareness
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the entire World to impose a lockdown. Due to the lockdown measures and shutdown of industries, the planet had a good opportunity to reduce its pollution in terms of air quality.
3 min |
September - October 2021
Scientific India
Why Pluto is no longer a planet?
Each year on August 24, the international scientific community recognizes Pluto's historic downgrade with a holiday called Pluto Demoted Day. In 2006, astronomers gathered in Prague to consider a very basic question: How many planets are in our solar system?
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September - October 2021
Scientific India
Toward next-generation brain-computer interface systems
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are emerging assistive devices that may one day help people with brain or spinal injuries to move or communicate. BCI systems depend on implantable sensors that record electrical signals in the brain and use those signals to drive external devices like computers or robotic prosthetics.
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September - October 2021
Scientific India
Long Covid Uncommon In Children
Fewer than one in F20 children with symptomatic COVID-19 experienced symptoms lasting longer than 4 weeks, and almost all children have fully recovered by 8 weeks, a new study has found.
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July - August 2021
Scientific India
Eating More Plant Foods May Lower Heart Disease Risk In Young Adults
Eating more Enutritious, plant-based foods is heart-healthy at any age, according to two research studies published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American Heart Association.
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July - August 2021
Scientific India
The Verge of Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point.
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July - August 2021
Scientific India
Fish with human like teeth
Anglers at Jennette's Pier in North Carolina pulled up something unexpected — and uncanny — from the Atlantic: a fish with human teeth.
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July - August 2021
Scientific India
More than 98 percent of emperor penguin colonies are expected to become quasi-extinct by 2100
Nearly all of the world's emperor penguin colonies may be pushed to the brink of extinction by 2100, a study has found, as the United States moves to list them as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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July - August 2021
Scientific India
Snake-eating spiders
Snakes are occasionally overpowered and eaten by a limited number of spider taxa. Not all snake-eating spiders trap the serpents with webs. Tarantulas actively hunt their prey, then use powerful jaws to deliver a potent venom (SN: 2/28/19).
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July - August 2021
Scientific India
Heat Wave Killed more than 1 Billion Marine creatures in Western United States and Canada
Heat Wave Killed more than 1 Billion Marine creatures in Western United States and Canada
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July - August 2021
Scientific India
Consuming a diet with more fish fats, less vegetable oils can reduce migraine headaches
A diet higher in Afatty fish helped frequent migraine sufferers reduce their monthly number of headaches and intensity of pain compared to participants on a diet higher in vegetable-based fats and oils, according to a new study.
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July - August 2021
Scientific India
Dragon man fossil may replace Neanderthals as our closest relative
A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of known Homo skulls, scientists now say this skull represents a newly discovered human species named Homo longi or Dragon Man. Their findings, appearing in three papers published in the journal The Innovation, suggest that the Homo longi lineage may be our closest relatives and has the potential to reshape our understanding of human evolution.
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July - August 2021
Scientific India
A fermented-food diet increases microbiome diversity and lowers inflammation
A diet rich in Afermented foods enhances the diversity of gut microbes and decreases molecular signs of inflammation, according to researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine.
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July - August 2021
Scientific India
Zombie Genes: Genes That Come To Life In The Brain After Death
In the hours after we die, certain cells in the human brain are still active. Some cells even increase their activity and grow to gargantuan proportions, according to new research from the University of Illinois Chicago.
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